Early Femmefen

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The Women Fen Don’t See
or, Women in Fandom Before Tricon

By Leah Zeldes Smith
Reprinted from Unsettled 73 (October 23, 2021).
© 2021 by Leah Zeldes Smith. Used with permission.

Tricon, the 1966 Worldcon, was notable in fanhistory for a number of reasons, but among them is that it screened the premiere of a new TV show: Star Trek. And after that came the deluge.

Common fannish lore says there were hardly any women in fandom before the Enterprise boldly flew across our television screens and fandom grew exponentially — but common fannish lore, and the poor memories and male fanhistorians who fed into it, are wrong.

Men did outnumber women in early 20th-century fandom, yet there were many female actifen even during fandom’s earliest days. (It’s worth noting that, by 1959, fanspeak had developed two nongender-specific pronouns, heesh and hiser.) René Walling’s research into Worldcon membership demographics, from 1939–60, shows that women made up roughly 20 percent of the attendance at early Worldcons. While Sam Moskowitz recalled that at the first Worldcon in 1939, “Of the 30 women in attendance only about 7 were interested in science fiction, the others were wives, sisters, and friends” — how could he know what they were interested in?

Much early fanboy grousing about the lack of women in fandom really meant not enough single — i.e., available — women. As Lee Hoffman recollected in Fanhistorica 1 (May 1976, p. 10): 

In those dark ages, a major complaint in fandom was the shortage of femfans. There were some, but not enough to go around. Young male fans in search of intellectual companionship often complained that all the active femfans came into fandom on the coattails of male fans (as girl friends or wives) and were subsequently unavailable. At the same time that they were voicing these complaints, they seemed to be taking a perverse chauvinistic pride in the predominant maleness of fandom.

Jack Speer was positively dismissive back in 1944, writing in Fancyclopedia 1, “The great majority of fans are male, and it has been asserted that females cannot be the psychological type of the s-f fan, but,” he acknowledged, “there are several dyed-in-the-wool fannes to refute this.” However, he went on to say, “In addition there are a lot of sweethearts, wives, daughters, sisters, etc. of the he-fans, who tag along at fan gatherings, make some appearance in the fanzines, and assist in dirty work like mimeoing.” As if all that weren’t fanac!

It’s important, though, when discussing fandom’s attitudes toward women, to compare with those of the macrocosm of the respective eras. Recollect that the first Worldcon was fewer than 20 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

In general, the men of fandom were at least as welcoming of women in their events and doings as other men of their times, if not more so. Fandom was never, at least overtly, considered a boys’ club emblazoned, “Girls keep out!” The surprise and delight when Lee Hoffman turned out to be Hoffwoman shows that.

Male fans were, however, as blind as their mundane contemporaries to women’s accomplishments. The first Worldcon to have a female goh was back in 1946, but E. Mayne Hull was named jointly with her husband and collaborator, A. E. van Vogt. It wasn’t until 1975 that a woman pro, Ursula Le Guin, was honored solo.

The first woman to win any Hugo was Elinor Busby, for Best Fanzine in 1960, but that was jointly with her husband and two other men.[1] It took till 1988 for a zine edited by a woman alone to win — Pat Mueller’s Texas SF Inquirer — and not only was it a clubzine, but before the rocket was awarded, FACT, the sponsoring club, had taken the editorship away from her in favor of a man.

Worldcon didn’t name its first female fan goh until 1972: Juanita Coulson, but, again, she shared the honor with her husband, Buck. The first femmefan a Worldcon honored on her own was Lee Hoffman in 1982; it took another 30 years till the next — second-generation fan Peggy Rae Sapienza — in 2012!

Yes, some women first entered the microcosm as wives, girlfriends and daughters of male fen (or sisters, cousins and aunts), but they did their share of writing for the fmz, cranking the mimeos, organizing the clubs, designing and sewing the costumes and working on the cons. Five women — Dirce Archer, Noreen Falasca, Julian May, Anna Sinclare Moffatt and Ella Parker — chaired Worldcons before 1966. They count.

And — they were editing, writing and drawing for the prozines, too. We lay claim here to some female pros who may or may not have been especially fannish, but early in fanhistory, pros and fans formed one close-knit community in a way they haven’t in more recent times.

Women have been an important part of the science fiction community since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley invented the genre in 1818.

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  1. ↑ The next year’s award went to Earl Kemp for Who Killed Science Fiction?, according to TheHugoAwards.org as well as contemporary accounts. But if you look at the fanzine itself, you’ll see it’s credited to Earl and Nancy Kemp! Similarly, the first major fanzine index is historically attributed to R. D. Swisher, but the zines credit F. N. Swisher, his wife, as well.



Women in Fandom by 1966

This list of femmefen active by 1966, culled from convention and club membership lists, fanzines, fan directories and discussion on the Facebook Fanhistory group, is very much a work in progress, and is surely missing names. Moreover, such information as exists for many women is quite sketchy. Please do add what you can, especially for the redlinked names.

Note that lots of women had numerous name changes, so the person you’re thinking of may be there under another variant. (See “The Naming of Names.”)

  1. Wendayne Ackerman (Mondelle / Tilly Porjes / Mathilde Wahrman)
  2. Gillian “Jill” Adams
  3. Rose Alberti ff
  4. Beverly Amers (DeWeese)
  5. MayBelle Anshutz ff
  6. Florence S. Anderson (Stephenson)
  7. Karen Anderson (Kruse)
  8. Ruby A. Anderson
  9. Virginia Anderson (Combs / “Nanek”)
  10. Valeria K. Anjoorian (“Valkon”)
  11. Pearle Appleford
  12. Dirce Archer
  13. Eleanor Arnason
  14. Lynne Aronson
  15. Abby Lu Ashley
  16. Pauline Ashwell (Whitby)
  17. Sheila Ashworth
  18. Chris Atkinson
  19. Delcie Austin (Stuart)
  20. Betty Ballantine (Elizabeth Norah Jones)
  21. Irene Baron (Scortia)
  22. Evelyn Barrett ff
  23. Terry Bartfield (Terri Pinckard / Merat / Merrit)
  24. Jonne Evans Bates (Hanlon)
  25. Susie Beam (Rivers)
  26. Margaret Bertrand
  27. Judi Beatty-Sephton
  28. Virginia Beebe (Hoskins)
  29. Martha Beck
  30. Kay Becker
  31. Doris Beller
  32. Josie Benderavage
  33. Bess Benjamin
  34. Zelda Benowitz
  35. Beryl Bentcliffe (Watkins)
  36. Betty Berg
  37. Phyllis Berg (King)
  38. Jean Berman
  39. Ruth Berman
  40. Ruth Bernstein
  41. Diane Berry
  42. Margaret Bertrand
  43. Sandi Bethke (Gerber / Maia Nemzek)
  44. Helena Binns (Margaret Duce / Roberts)
  45. Judy Blish (Judith A. Lawrence)
  46. Barbara Bliss
  47. Gilda Blitzer
  48. Perdita Boardman (Lilly / Nelson / Girsdansky)
  49. Jean Bogert
  50. Shirley Booher
  51. Irene Boothroyd
  52. Barbara Bovard (Edge) ff
  53. Leigh Brackett
  54. Helen Bradleigh (Joan Domnick)
  55. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  56. Jacqui Bratton
  57. Catherine M. Brennan
  58. Barbara Brewster
  59. Kay Brickman
  60. Rohelen Brickman
  61. Marjorie Broadbent
  62. Marlene Broderick
  63. Beverly Bronson
  64. Jacqueline G. Brooks
  65. Rosel G. Brown
  66. Beverly Browne
  67. Margaret Brundage
  68. Marjorie Brunner
  69. Doris Pitkin Buck
  70. Daphne Buckmaster (Bradley)
  71. Edna Budrys (Duna)
  72. Pamela Bulmer (Buckmaster)
  73. Thelma Bunch
  74. Isabel Burbee
  75. Joyce Burke
  76. Kay Burwell
  77. Elinor Busby
  78. Freda Busfield
  79. Linda Bushyager (Eyster)
  80. JoAnne Calkins
  81. Doña Campbell (Stewart / Smith)
  82. Peg Campbell (Winter)
  83. Cynthia Carey
  84. Irene Carnell
  85. Carol Carr
  86. Edith Carr
  87. Gertrude M. Carr
  88. Miriam Carr (Miri Dyches / Knight / Lloyd)
  89. Jean Carrol (Jane McClain / Engel)
  90. Phyllis Carter
  91. Ann Chamberlain
  92. Penny Chandler (Bale)
  93. Evelyn Dolores Chappell
  94. Joan Chapman
  95. Ada Charles
  96. Lorraine “Sandy” Charnoff
  97. Meredith Chatterton
  98. Lily Chibbett (Walters)
  99. Bev Clark
  100. Eugenia Clark
  101. Gina Ellis Clarke (Georgina, “Dutch”)
  102. Joan Cleveland
  103. Eva Jane Clevenger
  104. Mildred Clingerman (McElroy)
  105. Audrey Clinton
  106. Jessie Clinton
  107. Helen Cloukey ff
  108. Martha Cohen
  109. Rosalind Cohen (Wylie) ff
  110. Esther “Es” Cole
  111. Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost / Harvey)
  112. Eva Conn
  113. Lillian Conway
  114. Peggy Cook
  115. Millen Cooke (Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea / Belknap / Trench)
  116. Rita Coriell ff
  117. Leigh Couch
  118. Juanita Coulson (Wellons)
  119. Mary Elizabeth Counselman ff
  120. Lucille Counts
  121. Phyllisann Courtis
  122. Chantelle Covington
  123. Anne Cox (Myla Seidel)
  124. Marion Cox (Oakes)
  125. Margaret “Peggy” Crawford (Finn)
  126. Dian Crayne (Girard / Pelz)
  127. Pat Crossley
  128. Lora Crozetti
  129. Ruth Cuher ff
  130. Elizabeth Cullen
  131. Betty Cummings (Elizabeth Starr Hill) ff
  132. Monette Cummings
  133. Doris Currier
  134. Mary Marcarette Curry ff
  135. Betsy Curtis
  136. Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) ff
  137. Eleanor Daugherty (O’Brien)
  138. Virginia Daugherty (“Jim-E” or “Jimmy” Laney)
  139. Rose Davenport
  140. DEA (Margaret M. Dominick)
  141. Audrey Deane
  142. Dorothy de Courcy
  143. Miriam Allen deFord
  144. Marie DeJack
  145. Wilma DeMory
  146. Helen B. Dewey
  147. Shirley Dickensheet
  148. Ann Dietz (Ashe)
  149. Belle Dietz (Cohen)
  150. Ann Dinkleman
  151. Isabelle Dinwiddie
  152. Fay Dishington
  153. Sonya Dorman
  154. Ree Dragonette (Rita Marie Dragonetti)
  155. Sally Dunn (Brues / Kidd)
  156. Lorraine Dunkelberger
  157. Sheila Dvorak
  158. Mary Dziechowski
  159. Marion Eadie (Marion Turner / Fiona Turner)
  160. Rose Ebert
  161. Phyllis Economou
  162. Phyllis Eisenstein (Kleinstein)
  163. Jane Ellern (Gallion / Jacobs)
  164. Marjii Ellers
  165. Pat Ellington
  166. Sophie Wenzel Ellis ff
  167. Corinne Ellsworth
  168. Elaine Ellsworth
  169. Morjeanne Elman
  170. Carol Emshwiller
  171. Christine Entrekin
  172. D. E. Essam
  173. Jill Esternik
  174. Frances Evans (Varley)
  175. Thelma Evans (T. D. Hamm / Morgan)
  176. Audrey Eversfield
  177. Edythe Eyde (“Tigrina”)
  178. Hazel R. Fahringer
  179. Djinn Faine (Virginia Russell / Dickson )
  180. Joyce Fairbairn (Youd)
  181. Rory Faulkner (Dorothea / “Dotty”)
  182. Alicia Feather ff
  183. Nancy Featherstone ff
  184. Harriet Fellas
  185. Marianne Ferguson ff
  186. Helen Finn
  187. Dorothy Finn (Hasse)
  188. Eva Firestone ff (Upton)
  189. Sue Francis
  190. Ruth Frayne
  191. Polly Freas
  192. Wendy Freeman
  193. Ingrid Fritzsch
  194. Elizabeth Foyster
  195. Edith Furcsik
  196. Anne Gardiner
  197. Helene Gardiner
  198. Frances Garfield (Wellman)
  199. Sonia Garner
  200. Beverly Garrett
  201. Jane Gaskell
  202. Nan Gerding
  203. Robbie Gibson (Roberta Collins)
  204. Sheila Gilbert (Elkin)
  205. Bea Gittery
  206. Helen Glaser
  207. Bea Glass
  208. Frances Glynn (Jason / Ferguson)
  209. Mary Gnaedinger ff
  210. Evelyn Paige Gold (Stein / Eve Paige Spencer)
  211. Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
  212. Evelyn Goldstein
  213. Cynthia Goldstone
  214. Joy Goodwin (Clarke / Sanderson)
  215. Phyllis Gotlieb
  216. Jessica "Toni" Gould (Wilson)
  217. Diane Goulding (Ellingsworth)
  218. Mary Graham
  219. Penny Grant
  220. Roberta Gray (“Bobbie” or “Bobby” Wild)
  221. Jessamine Greer
  222. Jean Grennell
  223. Pauline Grimm
  224. Joyce Grissom
  225. Reta Grossman
  226. Arniece Gurley
  227. Rosalyn Gutstein
  228. Eunice Guyy
  229. Ann Hafler
  230. Gay Haldeman
  231. Vol Haldeman (Candace Ettlin)
  232. Sandy Hall (Alexandra or Sandra)
  233. Tikwis Hall
  234. Frances Hamling
  235. Joan Hammet
  236. Verna “Vee” Hampton
  237. Eclare Hannifen (Hilda Hoffman)
  238. Dorothy Hansen
  239. F. E. Hardart (Flossie Elizabeth Sheehan)
  240. Barbara Harmon (Gratz)
  241. Agnes Harook
  242. Clare Winger Harris ff
  243. Evelyn Harrison
  244. Dorothy Hartwell
  245. Laura Shay Hastings
  246. Harriet Hausman
  247. Margery Hawthorne
  248. Christine Haycock (Moskowitz)
  249. Cindy Heap (Cramer / Van Arnam / Williams)
  250. Helen S. Heap
  251. G. N. Hedinger
  252. Nella Hellinger
  253. Mrs Helliwell
  254. Norma Hemming
  255. Gertrude “Trudy” Hemken (Caroline Ferber)
  256. Zenna Henderson
  257. Charlotte Hensley
  258. Freddie Hershey (Curtis)
  259. Mary Hershey (Gibson)
  260. Rosemary Hickey (Becker)
  261. Carolyn Hickman
  262. Carolyn Jo Higgs
  263. Alma Hill
  264. Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Rose Cronin/Anderson)
  265. G. M. Hills
  266. Dora Holland
  267. Joan Hunter Holly
  268. Caroline Prescott Hoar ff
  269. Lee Hoffman
  270. Doreen House
  271. Addie Huddleston
  272. Katya Hulan (Katherine Jean Wheat / Kathy Atkins / Stevens)
  273. E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt)
  274. Carole Ingersoll
  275. Margaret Irwin
  276. Sherry Jackson
  277. Sylvia Jacobs
  278. Lilian “Lily” Jaggers
  279. Mary Jameson ff
  280. Vida Jameson ff
  281. Elsie “Else” Janda
  282. Julie Ann Jardine
  283. Val Jeeves (Valerie Williams)
  284. Barbi Johnson
  285. Bertha Johnson
  286. Helen Johnson
  287. Hilda Johnson
  288. Marijane “Janey” Johnson
  289. Flora Jones
  290. Margaret Jones
  291. Marsha Jones (Elkin / Brown)
  292. Bertha Jordan
  293. Deborah Josephson
  294. Janet Kagan
  295. Marcia Kamien
  296. Sheila Mae Kamper
  297. Helen Weinbaum Kasson
  298. Joyce Katz (Worley / Fisher)
  299. Betty Keat ff
  300. Margaret Ford Keifer
  301. Bernice Keller ff
  302. Celia Keller
  303. Dorothea Keller
  304. Nancy Kemp
  305. Anne Keylock
  306. Rita Khrone
  307. Virginia Kidd (Emden / Blish)
  308. Betty Knight
  309. Gail Knuth (Joey Knuth / Gail Daniels / Thompson / Whiskin)
  310. Mary Kolb
  311. Harriett Kolchak
  312. Mary Kornbluth (Byers)
  313. Irene Korshak (Odenheimer)
  314. Anna Krenzel ff
  315. Eva "Wildcat" Kreuger
  316. Frances Krueger
  317. Bridges Kuhn
  318. Betty Kujawa
  319. Karen Kurz (Cooper-Johnston)
  320. Gertrude “Trudy” Kuslan (“tKuslan”) ff
  321. Ziva Kwitney (Sheckley)
  322. Ruth Kyle (Landis)
  323. Janie Lamb
  324. Marion Lansdale (Linwood)
  325. Deedee Lavender
  326. Lois Lavender
  327. Denise Laws
  328. Betty Leedham
  329. Alberta Leek
  330. Kathleen Leerburger
  331. Ursula K. Le Guin
  332. Jonquil "Johnny" Leiber (Stephens) ff
  333. Louise Leipiar (L. Major Reynolds)
  334. Madeleine L'Engle
  335. Dorothy Les Tina
  336. Suford Lewis (Susan Hereford)
  337. Barb Lex
  338. Olga Ley
  339. Frances "Fran" Light
  340. Annie Linard
  341. Pauline Lincoff
  342. Ethel Lindsay
  343. Fran Lipton
  344. Amelia Reynolds Long ff
  345. Lilith Lorraine ff
  346. Audrey Lovett
  347. Pat Lupoff
  348. Lesleigh Luttrell (Couch)
  349. Pam MacInnes
  350. Lil MacKay
  351. Renee MacKay
  352. Constance "Connie" Mackenzie
  353. Katherine MacLean (Kate Dye / Mason / West)
  354. Florence Magarian
  355. Bea Mahaffey
  356. Pat Mahaffey (Lake)
  357. Mary Mair
  358. Marion Mallinger
  359. Faye Manning
  360. Mercedes Mansfield
  361. Carmela Marceau
  362. Katherine Marcusson
  363. Cylvia K. Margulies (Kleinman)
  364. Shirley Marriott
  365. Mary Martin
  366. Adrienne Martine
  367. Winifred Marx
  368. Barbara May
  369. Julian May (Judy Dikty)
  370. Anne McCaffrey
  371. Orma McCormick
  372. Joyce “Lin” McDaniel (Potter / Johnstone / Jumper)
  373. Winnifred McGill
  374. Dorothy McIlwraith
  375. Shirley McKeown
  376. Renee McKie
  377. Carol McKinney
  378. Ann McKnight (Newell)
  379. Buddie McKnight (Lillian Heim Jacoby / Evans)
  380. Helene Mears
  381. Jean Mehegan
  382. Beryl Mercer (Henley)
  383. Judith Merril
  384. Lois Miles
  385. Terry Mill
  386. Virginia Mill
  387. Lynette Mills
  388. Pat Milnes (Doolan)
  389. Lesley Minard
  390. Zeda Mishler
  391. Anna Sinclare Moffatt (“Stfanna”)
  392. June Moffatt (Poulson / Konigsberg)
  393. Dora Hepner Moiteret
  394. Gisela Molander
  395. Laura Molesworth
  396. June Casey Monroe
  397. Frances Trego Montgomery
  398. Belle S. Mooney
  399. C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Kuttner)
  400. F. Moore
  401. Nancy Moore (Shapiro)
  402. Ronnie Morgan (Takacs)
  403. Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) ff
  404. Daphne Muggoch
  405. Mary Munro
  406. Jean Murrey
  407. Jeanette Nagle
  408. Monica Naughton
  409. Ann B. Nelson
  410. Lil Neville
  411. Ruth Newbury
  412. Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  413. Marilyn “Fuzzy Pink” Niven
  414. Jo Noble
  415. Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) ff
  416. Marge Nuttall
  417. Marijane Nuttall (M J Nuttall)
  418. Betty Nystrom
  419. Edith Ogutsch
  420. Judy Oppenheim
  421. Enid Jacobs Osten
  422. Patty Paccassi
  423. Pennie Palmer
  424. Cory Panshin (Seidman)
  425. Ella Parker (Canada)
  426. Ella Parker (U.K.)
  427. Ellen Parkes
  428. Celia Parks
  429. Ann Patrizio (Temple)
  430. Pat Patterson (Lyons)
  431. Amelia Pemberton
  432. Jan Penney (Sadler / Kauffman / Samuels)
  433. Jo Perew
  434. Leslie Perri ff
  435. Helen Perry
  436. Luise Perrin (Petty)
  437. Betty Peters
  438. Elaine Phillips
  439. Charlotte Picard
  440. Margaret Picken
  441. Marjorie Pickles
  442. Mavis Pickles
  443. Brenda Piper
  444. Rita Pitman
  445. Audrey Plimpton
  446. Pogo (Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray / Russell / Wood) ff
  447. Carol Pohl (Metcalf / Ulf / Stanton)
  448. Nancy Pooley
  449. Elizabeth Pope
  450. Irene Potter (Gore)
  451. Lou Ann Price
  452. Valerie Purnell
  453. Dorothy Quick ff
  454. Dorothy Quinn
  455. Mary Quinn
  456. Jane Quirk
  457. Evonne Rae
  458. Joni Rapkin (Markwood)
  459. Nancy Rapp (“Kabu” / Nan Share)
  460. Dorothy Ratigan (Jacobs)
  461. Vanessa Redgrave
  462. Kit Reed
  463. Mary Reed (Legg / Long)
  464. Eugenie Reid
  465. Diane Reinsberg
  466. Jeannette Reol ff
  467. Carol Resnick
  468. Mona Lee Rhines
  469. Trina Robbins (Perlson / Castillo / Petit)
  470. Lottie Robins
  471. Chris Robinson
  472. Joan Rock
  473. Elenore Rockey
  474. Doreen Parker Rogers
  475. Mary Evelyn Rogers ff
  476. Sidonie “Sid” Rogers
  477. Felice Rolfe (Maxam)
  478. Su Rosen
  479. Betty Rosenblum
  480. Marilyn Ross
  481. Dori Rothman
  482. Agnes Rundle
  483. Joanna Russ
  484. Florence Russell
  485. Marion Ryan
  486. Virginia "Ginny" Saari
  487. Margaret St. Clair ff
  488. Alice Sander
  489. Dorothy Sanford
  490. Peggy Rae Sapienza (McKnight / Pavlat)
  491. Josephine Saxton
  492. Helena Schaumburger
  493. Barbara Schmidt
  494. Virginia Schultheis
  495. Gretchen Schwenn (Boggs)
  496. Phyllis Scott
  497. Harriet Segman
  498. Daphne Sewall
  499. Lila Shaffer
  500. Sandy Shapiro
  501. Marie-Louise Share (Shoemaker)
  502. Juanita Sharp
  503. Noreen Shaw (Falasca)
  504. Sadie Shaw (Sarah)
  505. Monna Sheller
  506. Nancy Sherry
  507. Wilmar H. Shiras
  508. Ina Shorrock
  509. Maril Shrewsbury
  510. Nancy Shriner
  511. Thelma Shull
  512. Bella Siegel (Lifshitz)
  513. Barbara Silverberg (Brown)
  514. Rosemary G. Simmons
  515. Pat Simpson
  516. Pat Sims (Oswalt)
  517. Lee Sirat
  518. Rosalie Sisson
  519. Margaret Skiffington ff
  520. Joan Skirvin
  521. Joyce Slater
  522. Ricky Slavin (Rhoda Katerinsky)
  523. Riva “The Bat” Smiley
  524. Clarrissa Smith (Honey Wilcox) ff
  525. Cindy Smith
  526. Evelyn E. Smith
  527. Jeannie Smith (Jeanne Craig MacDougall) ff
  528. Mary Southworth (Young)
  529. Ruth Stage
  530. Sue Stanley
  531. Rose Stark
  532. Barbara Steedman
  533. Genevieve K. Stephens
  534. Inga Stephens (Pratt / Clark)
  535. Anne Steul
  536. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett)
  537. Lyn Stier
  538. Julia Stone
  539. Leslie F. Stone ff
  540. Joni Stopa (“Kitty” Doyle / Cornell)
  541. Mae Strelkov
  542. Evelyn Stroud
  543. Betty Sullivan
  544. Kathleen Swearingen
  545. Frances Swisher ff
  546. Frances Alberti Sykora (Quarterman) ff
  547. Frances Helen Sykora (Racic) ff
  548. Chrystal Tackett (Allen)
  549. Frances Tanner
  550. Millie Taurasi ff
  551. Beatrice Taylor
  552. Myrtle Taylor
  553. Joan Teagle
  554. Joan Temple
  555. Diane Tenglin
  556. Diane Terwilleger
  557. Zylpha Thailing
  558. Jeanette Marie Thomas
  559. Maggie Thompson (Margaret Curtis)
  560. Winnie Thorn
  561. Jeanne Thorne
  562. Dorothy Tomkins
  563. Suzanne Tompkins (“Suzle”)
  564. Lee Anne Tremper (Lavell)
  565. Jan Trenholm
  566. Verna Smith Trestrail ff
  567. Bjo Trimble (Betty JoAnne Conway / McCarthy / Wells)
  568. Iris Tubb
  569. Marilyn Tulley
  570. Hellen Tullis (Nagy)
  571. Leslie Turek
  572. Eleanor “Ellie” Turner
  573. Mary Ellen Tyrrell
  574. Marie Uney
  575. Beatrice Unger (Gilsenberg) ff
  576. Helen M. Urban
  577. Sophia van Doorn
  578. Helen Vasquez
  579. Bea Venable
  580. Marilyn "Lyn" Venable
  581. Catherine Verrastro
  582. Suzanne “Suzy” Vick
  583. Jessie Walker
  584. Simone Walsh (Restall)
  585. Mary Helen Washington
  586. Ardis Waters
  587. Beryl Watkins
  588. Doreen Webbert
  589. Jane Wells (Janie Ely)
  590. Margaret Wells (Hughes)
  591. Elma Wentz (Miller / LeCron)
  592. Helen Wesson (Vivarttas)
  593. Mari Beth Wheeler
  594. Betty White
  595. Peggy White
  596. Phyllis White (Price)
  597. Robin Postal White
  598. Sylvia Dees White
  599. Thelma "Pat" White
  600. Evelyn Adams Whyte
  601. Kate Wilhelm
  602. Allison Williams (Phillips)
  603. Cecile Williamson
  604. Madeleine Willis
  605. Genie Willmorth
  606. Gabrielle Wilson (Cummings)
  607. Liz Wilson
  608. Mary Wilson
  609. Helen Winick
  610. Mari Wolf (Graham)
  611. Eva Wolff
  612. Elsie Wollheim
  613. Honey Wood (Graham)
  614. JoAnn Wood (Schmidt)
  615. Natalie H. Wooley
  616. Barbara Wrede
  617. Marjorie Z. Wright ff
  618. Belle Wyman ff
  619. Geneva Wyman
  620. Rose Wyn
  621. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  622. Cathie Youden
  623. Donna Young
  624. Jean Young
  625. Mabel Young (Mae Sims)

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Fanhistory 1920s—1966
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